Friday, October 11, 2013

So
thankful for an everyday miracle thanks to medical technology -- dad is
almost out of the woods. With internal bleeding and kidney failure,
our docs felt he would not survive surgery that he needed -- we were
just watching him decline and hoping his body would start to repair the
damage -- which didn't happen.

On Wednesday am, he was in rapid decline.
They took a calculated risk and did a procedure that that was the
lesser of the evil invasive options --they injected him with "hard on
the kidneys" dye and ran a catheter to his abdomen. They identified the
damaged artery and wrapped it in a feathery mesh infused with a clotting
agent. Within hours his kidney function and bloodwork were coming back.
Overnight I watched him basically come back to life.

This morning he
was lucid, talking, eating, drinking, and asking if he would be able to
go to my niece's wedding. He is very weak, and dependent on supportive drugs, but very much in recovery.

I know the medical reasons for the procedure's
success but it does seem like a miracle. Thanks all for your thoughts
and prayers.